Individual Therapy

​Life hasn’t been fun for a while.

You wake up exhausted. Anxiety buzzes around your head like a hornet’s nest.

The feeling of depletion is so entrenched in your being you can practically taste it.

At least you had more spring in your step when you were younger. Now, even getting out of bed feels like a chore.

The thrill has gone, and now, you are left feeling blah.

Life is suffering!

Well, at least that seems to be a point of agreement among all the major religions.

How we show up for ourselves, including our inner emotional selves, largely dictates how much suffering we endure.

Let me know if any of these ring true – ‘It’s better not to think about that stuff.’ ‘There’s no use of being sad anyway.’ ‘What’s feeling sorry for myself going to change anyway?’

Have you muttered these thoughts to yourself? If so, these statements are symptoms that your emotions need some attention and care.

Let’s imagine for a second.

You’re at home and about to take the garbage out. Every time you do, though, this stray dog runs up outta nowhere and barks at you, scaring the living daylights out of you. The same thing happens Every Time! You toss the trash up in the air and run back inside.

This cycle of action and reaction repeats a few hundred more times. One day you commit to facing this son of a gun – because Enough is Enough!

You go out there and brace yourself with a baseball bat in hand. As you stand there, the moonlight shines upon the beast’s face. Wait a minute – he looks sickly and malnourished – and he’s trembling. “Oh dang,” you whisper to yourself. “He’s just hungry and afraid.”

This animal that scares you has been crying out for your attention. Your fear quickly turns to compassion, and you cue the big sigh of relief as tears well up in your eyes.

You begin to leave some food out for him. He doesn’t approach initially, but slowly he starts warming up to you. One day he’s so comfortable with you that you bathe him. Hey – he’s kinda cool! Now, he lives with you and makes for an incredible guard dog.

Congratulations – your fear just transformed into an ally.

Here’s why I tell this story. The same is true for your inner emotional self, and it can become true by experiencing good psychodynamic therapy with a skilled professional who knows what they’re doing.

All that changed is your approach to this dog. You didn’t beat, ignore, or kill the dog. You faced, acknowledged, and embraced the dog for who it was – an animal crying out for attention and care.

Facing your fears is the true Hero’s journey – the journey within yourself.

Therapy seems like a big commitment, though.

It is! Let’s be honest – therapy takes time and money, the two things you vigilantly try to preserve.

Let’s play the other side of the tape.

Think for a second about the potential consequences of not attending to your emotional health. Lack of attention to your emotional needs can destroy relationships, increase the probability of disease, cause bodily breakdown from chronic stress, create lost productivity, or lead to divorce.

Which cost do you want to pay?

How can just talking help?

The therapy room is a type of sanctuary – a place where you can talk about whatever it is that’s on your mind and truly connect with another human being.

Through connection, there’s healing. Just reading books and doing online programs won’t get you there.

Therapy provides a place for ‘coming undone’ – being REAL and RAW with another human being to access your truth. When we can start to get honest with what’s bothering you (here’s a hint: it’s often not what you come into therapy for in the first place), THEN we can start doing something about it.

Let’s get started making life fun again! Healing does not occur by suffering in silence. Contact me today, and let’s take this adventure together.